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Executive and Legislative documents laid before the General Assembly of North-Carolina [1868; 1869]

20 DocrMENT No, 2. [Session
&c., which will doubtless engage the attention of the General
Assembly at an early.
These matters, involving important questions in the manage-ment
of Insane Hospitals, and decisions in cases of medical
iurisprndence, have for years engaged the attention of the pro-fession
in this speciality, and a project of a law for determining
the.legal relations of the insane has been under consideration
for several years in the " Association of Medical Superinten-dents
of American Institutions for the Insane." At their recent
meetino- in Boston, a thorough consideration and discussion re-sulted
in the unanimous adoption of the following series of pro-positions
to be recommended for the legal enactment in those
States where the existing laws upon the subject are impeifect
and unsatisfactory, to-wit
:
" rilO.IECT OF A LAW FOE DETERMINING THE LEGAL EELATIONS OF
THE INSANE.
" The Association of Medical Superintendents of American In-stitutions
for the Insane, believing that certain relations of the
insane should be regulated by statutory enactments, calculated
to secure their riglits, and also the rights of those entrusted with
their care or connected with them by ties of relation or friend-ship,
as well as to promote the ends of justice and enforce the
claims of an enlightened humanity, for this purpose recommend
that the following legal provisions be adopted l)y every Slate
where existing laws do not already satisiactorily provide for
these great ends
:
" 1. Insane persou-S may be placed in a hospital for the insane
by their legal guardians, or by their relatives or friends, in case
thev have no guardians, but never without the certificate of one
oi- more reputable physicians, after a personal examination made
within one Aveek of the date thereof; and this certificate to 1)0
duly acknowledged before some magistrate or judicial officer, who
shall certlfv to the genuineness of the signature, and of the re-spectability
of the signer.

20 DocrMENT No, 2. [Session
&c., which will doubtless engage the attention of the General
Assembly at an early.
These matters, involving important questions in the manage-ment
of Insane Hospitals, and decisions in cases of medical
iurisprndence, have for years engaged the attention of the pro-fession
in this speciality, and a project of a law for determining
the.legal relations of the insane has been under consideration
for several years in the " Association of Medical Superinten-dents
of American Institutions for the Insane." At their recent
meetino- in Boston, a thorough consideration and discussion re-sulted
in the unanimous adoption of the following series of pro-positions
to be recommended for the legal enactment in those
States where the existing laws upon the subject are impeifect
and unsatisfactory, to-wit
:
" rilO.IECT OF A LAW FOE DETERMINING THE LEGAL EELATIONS OF
THE INSANE.
" The Association of Medical Superintendents of American In-stitutions
for the Insane, believing that certain relations of the
insane should be regulated by statutory enactments, calculated
to secure their riglits, and also the rights of those entrusted with
their care or connected with them by ties of relation or friend-ship,
as well as to promote the ends of justice and enforce the
claims of an enlightened humanity, for this purpose recommend
that the following legal provisions be adopted l)y every Slate
where existing laws do not already satisiactorily provide for
these great ends
:
" 1. Insane persou-S may be placed in a hospital for the insane
by their legal guardians, or by their relatives or friends, in case
thev have no guardians, but never without the certificate of one
oi- more reputable physicians, after a personal examination made
within one Aveek of the date thereof; and this certificate to 1)0
duly acknowledged before some magistrate or judicial officer, who
shall certlfv to the genuineness of the signature, and of the re-spectability
of the signer.